Cannot get location using Detox (works without)

[Livijn]

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What happened?

I cannot get the location when running Detox. It works when using launching it normally. I am using expo. I think it might be related to #1371.

I've tried lots of different ways of implementing this (idb, applesimutils, set-simulator-location). Right now I'm running idb set-location --udid ${device._deviceId} ${coordinates.latitude} ${coordinates.longitude}. That works for changing location when launching without Detox. However, when I use it with Detox, it just loads forever.

What was the expected behaviour?

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Was it tested on latest Detox?

• [X] I have tested this issue on the latest Detox release and it still reproduces.

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In what environment did this happen?

package.json

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Detox logs

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Device logs

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[MuckT]

Have you tried this device.setLocation(lat, lon)?

[Livijn]

Yea, of course. But that is using the deprecated fbsimctl.

[Livijn]

I'll close this in favour of #3127

EDIT: Saw that the other issue was closed, so I reopened this one again.

[asafkorem]

Thanks for the report @Livijn, we are indeed aware of the issues with set-location.. I wonder if there's a way to make this work on Detox with idb. I will investigate this soon.

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[Livijn]

This is very much still relevant.

[d4vidi]

@Livijn we've already removed fbsimctl from the project, and now use a custom impl. via AppleSimUtils. Have you tried this with a fairly up to date version of Detox?

[hwjm]

@d4vidi I upgraded to the latest version(19.6.5), but it still uses fbsimctl https://github.com/wix/Detox/blob/19.6.5/detox/src/devices/common/drivers/ios/tools/AppleSimUtils.js

[d4vidi]

Yes, you are right. @asafkorem @noomorph do you recall why we've never integrated AppleSimUtil's? (in fact, the associated PR is closed - #2891)

[Livijn]

Any update on this?

[asafkorem]

We had some issues with react-native-geolocation on CI, and locally. Probably because there's some incompatability issue with iOS 14: https://github.com/react-native-geolocation/react-native-geolocation/pull/168, this repo is not maintained so we may want to think about what can be done about it. Maybe there's already a fork 🤔

See https://github.com/wix/Detox/pull/2891#issuecomment-983363088

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[jpbalo]

Using react-native-background-geolocation here and the behaviour is the same. Unable to set location on an iOS simulator.

Have tried with applesimutils and idb without any luck, like here https://github.com/wix/Detox/issues/1371#issuecomment-942544570.

Looking to mock location instead now, as currently seems impossible to set location having read through all the threads.

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[Livijn]

Bump

[d4vidi]

@asafkorem can this be close in favor of #2736?

[jpbalo]

is the fix here ready? https://github.com/wix/Detox/pull/3479

[xhirazi]

+1

[d4vidi]

No, we haven't had capacity for finalizing this. We would appreciate help, it is going to take a while before we reiterate back to this.

[mathias5r]

I'm not sure if this is the right approach, but one way I could overcome the location issue is to mock the location module:

https://github.com/wix/Detox/blob/01ad250fe4168502a57339b8bcab0ec5a5c89e4b/docs/Guide.Mocking.md

After all the steps I just ran as follow:

RN_SRC_EXT=e2e.ts detox build --configuration ios

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[henriquechagasg]

+1

[chellongCoder]

+1 I have sill get this problem.

[d4vidi]

@asafkorem need to reopen?

[mushtaque87]

This worked for me

const { exec } = require('child_process');

const setLocation = async () => {
      log.info('setLocation **');
      if (device.getPlatform() === 'ios') {
        exec(
          "idb list-targets | grep -n 'Booted'",
          (err: any, stdout: any, stderr: any) => {
            log.info('idb list-targets - ', err, stdout, stderr);
            log.info(
              'Execute Command to set Location for iOS **',
              'idb set-location --udid ' + device.id + ' 25.2769 55.2962',
            );
            exec(
              'idb set-location --udid ' + device.id + ' 25.2769 55.2962',
              (err: any, stdout: any, stderr: any) => {
                log.info('setLocation - ', err, stdout, stderr);
              },
            );
          },
        );
      } else {
        await device.setLocation(25.2769, 55.2962);
      }
    };

[nixolas1]

I ended up using simctl, so I wouldn't have to install idb or any other deps.

const {exec} = require("child_process")
const {log, device} = require("detox")

module.exports.setLocation = async function (lat, lon) {
  if (device.getPlatform() === "ios") {
    const coords = lat + "," + lon
    exec("xcrun simctl location booted set " + coords, (err, stdout, stderr) => {
      log.info("simctl location " + coords, err, stdout, stderr)
    })
  } else {
    await device.setLocation(lat, lon)
  }
}

[riks1233]

I ended up using simctl, so I wouldn't have to install idb or any other deps.

@nixolas1 Thanks for sharing! And this works for you during the test runs?

Because running xcrun simctl location booted set 60,24 works for me if I run it manually in a separate shell, but does not work if it is executed during the test with the help of child_process.exec(), like in your example. However, what did work for me during the test is running applesimutils --byId ${device.id} --setLocation "[${lat}, ${lng}]".

But still, I would like to understand why xcrun simctl does not work. I was suspecting the exec() having insufficient permissions, but that is not the case, as ls and applesimutils do work. Maybe someone can help me out here?

EDIT: I see, that @zacharyweidenbach had the exact same problem here, where running from a separate terminal did work for him, but not with child_process.exec().

[ken-prediction-strike]

Set location works reliably for me using simctl without needing to use a separate shell if I clear the location first:

  execSync(`xcrun simctl location ${device.id} clear`)
  execSync(`xcrun simctl location ${device.id} set ${lat},${long}`)

[asafkorem]

Hey, in case you're still experiencing this issue, please upgrade Detox to v20.16. This version resolves set-location issues with Detox.